On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:35 -0500, David Boyd wrote:
> Maybe Digium doesn't care if they lose community
support as they have been
> successful in bringing in investment that will carry
them forward as they
> deploy more commercial product
Absolutely not. Digium cares *very deeply* about the
open-source
community, and realizes that without the community it
wouldn't be
anywhere as successful as it is today. Russell Bryant leads
the
Asterisk development team at Digium, and has about a dozen
developers
working for him. Those dozen or so developers spend almost
100% of
their time working on the open-source version of Asterisk.
Over 90% of
their time is currently spent on bug tracker fixing bugs and
handling
the feature requests (or at least the ones that come with
code
attached). There are some more statistics available in the
mailing list
archives [1] on the exact nature of the work the development
team has
been doing, if you want the nitty-gritty details.
In addition to that, Digium extends a lot of resources to
the community
besides just the development team. There's infrastructure
(mailing
lists, forums, and SVN repositories just to name a few), as
well as a
lot of adjunct services such as conferences, support for
Asterisk users
groups, documentation, etc. Obviously if Digium had
unlimited resources
it could do a lot more... but as it is we're constrained by
our current
resources in the number of things we can do. At the same
time, I think
you'd be hard-pressed to find any other company in the open
source
telephony space that does more to help the community.
Obviously we're open to suggestions on how to improve the
process, and
I'm 100% committed to making sure there's lots of open and
honest dialog
between the community and Digium. That's why I took this
job in the
first place. If you have questions or concerns, drop me an
email and
I'll do what I can to help you.
[1]http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asteris
k-biz/2008-January/024819.html
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Jarenessto
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.
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